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thin pointed ftem, which grows about three feet high in 
the fpace of five or fix weeks, then blows at the end, and 
is crowned with a panicle like that of a reed, oop , fig. 
i. Ihews the arrow crowned with its panicle; it is com- 
monly full-blown towards the end of Oflober, withers 
foon after, and falls in the following month. Some 
people pretend, that this panicle contains the feed of the 
cane ; I have fown the kind of feed or drift which comes 
from it, and nothing has come up. Perhaps the cane 
which is propagated by fhoots bears only empty hufks. 
Be this as it may, when once the arrow has appeared, 
the cane is in its laft ftage. 
After the fall of the leaf, which takes place a little 
fooner or a little later, according to the feafon, the joints 
which preceded it dry up, in their order. This mor- 
tification, 
aflez grele et pointue qui s’eleve dans l’efpace de cinq a fix femaines jufqu’a la 
hauteur d’environ trois pieds, fe developpe enfin par fa pointe etfecouronne d’un 
panache femblable a celuy du rofeau. oop , fig. I. prefente la fleche couronnee 
de fon panache; elle eft ordinairement tout a fait developpee a la fin d’Odlobre, 
peu apres elle fe deffeche, elle tombe le mois fuivant.. Quelques perfonnes pre- 
tendentque ce panache contient la femence de la canne, je n’en f^ais rien, mais 
j’ai feme l’efpece de pouftiere ou de graine qui en fort, et rien n’a leve, peut- 
etre que la canne qui vient de bouture ne porte que des graines folks* Quoi- 
qu’il en foit, apres que la fleche eft fortie, la canne eft a fon dernier periode; 
et un peu plus tot, un peu plus tard, apres la chute de la feuille (toujours 
fuiyant la faifon) les noeuds qui la precedent fe deffechent fucceflivement, et 
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